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| Jet-Settin' Prince Charles Warns We Have 7 Years to Save the Earth |
| 2009-12-17 |
| PRINCE Charles used up seven months' worth of the average British person's "carbon footprint" yesterday flying to Copenhagen on an executive jet to make a speech on climate change. Well, yeah, but he did it For The Children tm....... The heir to the throne, who prides himself on his green credentials, cost taxpayers an estimated £12,000 and racked up a 6.486-ton carbon footprint in one day by taking a seven-seater RAF Royal Flight HS125 jet to the summit in the Danish capital. Charles, who made an impassioned speech to world leaders on the need to agree drastic cuts in carbon emissions, decided against taking a more environmentally-friendly train or scheduled airliner, arguing it was impractical. "We looked at the possibility of flying scheduled but due to the usual considerations of security, punctuality -- we could not afford a delayed or cancelled flight -- and practicality, using the Royal Flight was seen as the best option," his spokesman said. Similar trips in the last couple of years have cost £12,000. I'm sure the proceedings would have ground to a screeching halt without him. Smart choice, sir! The Prince, who will offset the pollution he caused by using taxpayers' money to invest in environmentally-friendly initiatives, generates an annual carbon footprint of 2,601 tons, compared to 11 tons for an average UK citizen. In other words....if an average Brit lived 236 years, he or she would pollute as much as His Royal Jugears would in one year. He was one of numerous VIPs at the £130million summit, which will generate 40,500 tons of carbon dioxide over 12 days, the equivalent to the emissions of York, Portsmouth or the African country of Malawi in the same period. Charles told politicians they had only seven years to prevent irreversible man-made weather changes. Hey, I got an idea! Let's ground Prince Chuckie for a year an' make him take the bus to get around! That should buy us another year, right? "I can only appeal to you to listen to the cries of those who are already suffering from the impact of climate change," he said. I take his word on this. I'm sure he's made many, many fact-finding global tours to specifically listen to them. Mainly on private jets... "Just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink, so too do we have the power to bring it back into balance. "You have been called to positions of responsibility at this critical time. The eyes of the world are upon you and it is no understatement to say that, with your signatures, you can write our future." Charles, who has campaigned on environmental issues for three decades, warned of the dangers of climate change creating human catastrophes. But as he spoke, his efforts to broker an international deal for rich countries to pay poor countries to preserve their rainforests -- a vital source of soaking up carbon dioxide -- were unravelling. Developed nations refused to pay enough into a £20billion pot and Third World He believed man's future could only be assured if people found ways of living as part of nature. "Why, I enjoy nature immensely from the comfort of a Range Rover! Nothing like it for bouncing around the Scottish Highlands, I say! It's splendid!" He warned: "Climate change is a risk-multiplier. It has the potential to take all the other critical issues we face as a global community and transform their severity into a cataclysm. Reducing poverty, increasing food production, combating terrorism and sustaining economic development are all vital priorities, but it is increasingly clear how rapid climate change will make them even more difficult to address." In a poll of Daily Express readers yesterday 98 per cent said they believed Britons are being conned over man-made global warming theories. |
| Posted by:Cornsilk Blondie |
| #12 OTOH YEAR 2017 > 1990's MSM-Net to PRES > To wit, * Close to YEAR 2018 = SINO-RUSS "WAR AGZ THE US NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED". * "DAY AFTER TOMORROW" > IIRC Movie's time frame, in Year 2016 EARTH = GAIA goes unilaterally global berzerko on Humans. versus * YEAR 2017 > RUSS-DISCOVERED SPACE ROCK may come close enuff to endanger iff not strike Earth. IOW, "2017" > "THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING"[movie], one way or another, unless NASA-JPL is hiding something bad about the Sun + "Alien Autopsy"??? On a separate NOte, ME > OLD DREAM/VISION = what I belabel GUAM'S "KAMALEN/CAMARIN EVENT" > a light space rock which Perts though had seemingly passed earth but returned to strike WESTPAC [symbolic of Nostradamus' CHIREN = JANUS = URANUS = SWORD OF HEAVEN ANDOR HELL. "KAMALEN/ CAMARIN" will occur long years before 2017. OWG-NWO LESSON > ultimately, IFF ANY DESIRED OWG-NWO CAN'T WORK TOGETHER TO STOP A MINOR EVENT LIKE "KAMALEN", HOW IS SAME GOING TO STOP "BIGGIE" EVENTS E.G. THE SUN, OR COMET APOPHIS [2030 > Lunar explosions seen from future Guam-Earth], ETAL??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-17 22:54 |
| #11 Pragmatically, IMO QUEEN LIZ + PERHAPS CHARLES HIMSELF are seemingly putting the interests of the Nation ahead of linear succession. * HRH KING CHARLES > setting up the potens for a line of older or geriatric Monarchs with short span of rule compared to LIZ + MOST OF HER PREDECESSORS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-17 22:32 |
| #10 Is burning peat OK or are you gonna sleep with flea bitten dogs? Wouldn't that be a flea bitten horse in Chuckles case? (See comment #3 above). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-12-17 19:17 |
| #9 It's all well and good, Charlie, if you wanna live in a hobbit hole and plow your fields with a horse. I dunno what you're gonna do to keep warm. Is burning peat OK or are you gonna sleep with flea bitten dogs? But the problem is if you didn't have a modern, mechanized, petrol burning military to watch your ass you'd be speaking Russian. You can't keep the bad guyz out with sticks and stones anymore because they have tanks and warplanes and they're not gonna give 'em up on account of global warming. And to maintain that military you need a modern, industrialized, petrol burning society. You can turn out some of the excess neon lights and take a few less trips in your jet though. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-12-17 16:47 |
| #8 It has been a long time, but does not Parliament have a something of a say in who ends up king or queen? If so Charlie may yet have a chance. |
| Posted by: Kelly 2009-12-17 12:32 |
| #7 Snark of the day ,Besoeker spilt my coffee :) |
| Posted by: Grampaw 2009-12-17 12:25 |
| #6 Charlie can still be King if he does the following: -Gets Camilla's teeth fixed, -Tells her not to wear any more weeds in her hair, -Gets rid of his Arab costumes, -Starts flying with the rest of us peasants in coach, -Performs due penance for his flakery by dressing in sackcloth and ashes and walking barefoot from Kensington Gardens to Bladon while dragging a cross; there to lie prostrate before the grave of Winston Churchill for forty days and forty nights while subsisting on unleavened bread and whatever rainwater he can squeeze from the aforementioned sackcloth. Failing that, he isn't qualified and he should step aside for Wills when the time comes. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-12-17 11:53 |
| #5 Charlie needs to spend his retirement in an Ashram in Washington State, smoking a lot of hash with Al Gore. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-12-17 10:59 |
| #4 7 years isn't enough time! I'm still preparing for Y2K! {flap arms, run in circle) |
| Posted by: flash91 2009-12-17 10:55 |
| #3 Bold talk for a man who traded a princess for a horse. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-17 10:20 |
| #2 He believed man's future could only be assured if people found ways of living as part of nature. The aboriginals of the Brazilian or New Guinea jungles live as part of nature. I don't notice all these Greenies rushing to join them and renouncing the benefits of the long and somewhat chaotic advances of civilization. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-12-17 10:04 |
| #1 Apparently even Mom is cutting Chuck loose. I read earlier this week William is being set up as the next king. There is a price to be paid even for royal British twits. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-12-17 09:49 |